We performed a comparison between F5 Advanced WAF and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of F5 Advanced WAF are the easy identification of events and customization. We can pinpoint our settings."
"Identification, ease of use, and ease of modifying it to most of our needs are valuable."
"The anti-bot protection is the solution's most valuable feature. Safe-guard or credential staffing are also useful features."
"The initial setup was was easy to install."
"The solution is easily accessible on mobile and laptop devices."
"Customers find the load balancer feature as the most valuable."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the WAF protection, Data Safe, and the seven-layer DDoS."
"F5 Advanced WAF is a stable solution, we are satisfied. It is more stable than ForiWeb."
"Valuable features include Link Controller and Server Load Balancer."
"iRule feature is useful."
"We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to balance traffic."
"If I were to choose one key feature in particular, perhaps it would be the iRule feature. It’s a really versatile tool."
"The value and impact of using F5 BIG-IP LTM for application delivery control in our organization are significant."
"The initial setup is easy."
"F5 BIG-IP is used with good applications and functions as an application firewall with additional features. We will not use any feature or any service unless there is a business case and there is a need for implementation."
"It integrates with AWS WAF, which makes it easy to deploy without changes to your infrastructure."
"The contextual-based component needs a lot of help to catch up with the next-gen products."
"I would like to see the API Protection improved."
"The Sandbox integration feature could be improved."
"The interface is old-looking, it's not modern, which is why it's not always comfortable to use."
"They could provide better pricing."
"While F5 Advanced WAF does limit the number of partners in certain regions to ensure successful business transactions, they could also benefit from expanding their partnerships and making it easier for more people to learn about and become experts in F5 Advanced WAF. By doing so, they could increase the reach and exposure of their solution, similar to how Cisco has become widely recognized in the security industry."
"F5 Advanced needs to improve its bot protection. The solution needs to have machine learning to learn the behavior of the customer to recognize the human versus the bot. This is a difficult feature to explain to our customers. I would like documentation about the bot feature to make it easier for the customer to understand."
"The pricing could be more flexible."
"I used GitHub for autoscaling CloudFormation, and I found two bugs and I submitted them. Their implementation in GitHub could be cleaner and allow for a bit more customization."
"The logging features are too limited and do not give us a solid understanding of what's happening."
"They could improve the product's ease of use. There is some confusion how to operate it."
"The management interface is unclear, complex, and not concise. I would like a better user interface."
"Security enhancement should be more user friendly."
"Fixing bugs."
"The deployment could be simplified."
"We would like to see load balancing between the cloud and the on-premise, a straightforward deployment feature."
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F5 Advanced WAF is ranked 2nd in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 55 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. F5 Advanced WAF is rated 8.6, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of F5 Advanced WAF writes "Flexible configuration, reliable, and highly professional support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". F5 Advanced WAF is most compared with Fortinet FortiWeb, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, AWS WAF, Imperva Web Application Firewall and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, whereas F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and Avi Networks Software Load Balancer. See our F5 Advanced WAF vs. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) report.
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